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which comes nearest to the original. Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown writes, " Some people assert that to spell 

 it with a 2; is the best Scotch, but there being no 

 y nor z in Gaelic, and the word being distinctly 

 of Gaelic origin, it is best to adhere in form as 

 closely as possible to that origin." He accordingly 

 adopts the spelling Cajpercaillie, which is here fol- 

 lowed. 



Originally indigenous to the north of England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland, dwelling in the great pine- 

 woods which have been gradually destroyed, it 

 survived longest in Scotland, where it is said to have 

 become extinct about 1769, in which year Pennant 

 ascertained that it still lingered in Glen Moriston 

 and in the country of the Chisholms, in Inverness 

 ("Tour in Scotland," 5th ed., i. p. 218, and iii. 

 p. 23; "British Zoology," 4th ed., p. 225, pi. xh.). 

 Graves in his "British Ornithology" (1821) assigns 

 a later date than this to its extinction, observing 

 that one was killed near Fort William in 1815. 

 However that may be, the species was reintroduced 

 into Scotland in 1837-38 by Lord Breadalbane and 

 Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, through the agency of 

 Mr. L. Lloyd, who sent over some of these birds from 

 Sweden. Interesting particulars of this enterprise 

 are given in Lloyd's " Game-birds and Wildfowl of 

 Sweden and ISorway," and in Mr. Harvie-Brown's 

 more recently published work, "The Capercaillie 

 in Scotland," 1879, with supplementary remarks in 

 TJie Scottish Naturalist, July 1880. The diary of 

 the gamekeeper, Laurence Banville, who journeyed 



